{"id":40775,"date":"2012-02-10T11:39:46","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T16:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=40775"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:59:02","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:59:02","slug":"why-its-not-altruistic-to-help-the-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/02\/10\/why-its-not-altruistic-to-help-the-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Why It’s Not Altruistic to Help the Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In an earlier post we reviewed research by epidemiologists\u00a0Richard Wilkinson<\/a> and\u00a0Kate Pickett<\/a> showing that\u00a0income inequality contributes to a whole host of negative outcomes<\/a>, including higher rates of mental illness, drug use, obesity, infant death, imprisonment, and interpersonal trust.<\/p>\n

She summarizes these findings in this quick nine-minute talk at a Green Party conference:<\/p>\n

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See Dr. Pickett making similar arguments as to\u00a0why raising the average national income in developed countries doesn\u2019t make people happier or enable them to live longer<\/a>, why unequal societies are more violent<\/a>,\u00a0and\u00a0how status inequality increases stress<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And see more\u00a0about income inequality and national well-being at\u00a0Equality Trust<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an earlier post we reviewed research by epidemiologists\u00a0Richard Wilkinson and\u00a0Kate Pickett showing that\u00a0income inequality contributes to a whole host of negative outcomes, including higher rates of mental illness, drug use, obesity, infant death, imprisonment, and interpersonal trust. She summarizes these findings in this quick nine-minute talk at a Green Party conference: See Dr. Pickett […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[223,29,229,36,98,34,329,702,252,273,260,85,37],"class_list":["post-40775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-childrenyouth","tag-class","tag-consumption","tag-economics","tag-capitalism","tag-education","tag-emotion","tag-energy","tag-healthmedicine","tag-mental-illness","tag-international-comparisons","tag-politics","tag-social-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40775"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58487,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40775\/revisions\/58487"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}